Field Museum, Squires Style

Yesterday we made our first trip to Chicago with the kids, to spend the morning at the Field Museum. That is an amazing place. We only saw a small portion, and that in our little-kid way. The boys were most interested in dinosaur skeletons (T-Rex Sue was the main draw) and taxidermy. And boy do they have taxidermy! Personally, I find stuffed dead animals a little spooky.

Owen was most interested in Lucy, which none of us even saw. There was a photo of her at the entrance to an exhibit and Jude was terrified. Sam and Owen were vaguely worried. Owen is still asking if we're going to see "the guy," and he is making plans to go back and just "have a peek." Jude will have none of it. In fact, after three rowdy hours at the museum Jude told me he doesn't want to go back there anymore because it is boring.

Predictable they are not.

I loved taking the boys downtown. Sam is finally old enough that getting out of familiar territory seems worthwhile. (Going almost anywhere with these three takes a lot of energy.) Sam has often asked me about going to "the city" and we talked about the skyscrapers and Lake Michigan and the trains. I think often about trips we'd like to take with them: out west, to Canada, overseas. This felt like a first step to bigger adventures.